NILFS is a log-structured file system supporting versioning of the entire file system and continuous snapshotting which allows users to even restore files mistakenly overwritten or destroyed just a few seconds ago.

This site provides related resources of the NILFS filesystem.

• NILFS utilities 2.1.1 was released. A maintainance release of nilfs-utils 2.1, which applied a bunch of fixes and cleanups by Dan McGee (thanks).
  -- Jan 14, 2012 JST.
• NILFS utilities 2.0.24 was released. A maintenance release of nilfs-utils 2.0 series. This release backported fixes for a GC failure issue and an autoreconf error.
  -- Dec 5, 2011 JST.
• NILFS utilities 2.1.0 was released. The first stable release of nilfs-utils 2.1 series. Changes from the rc2 release are just a few, a build error fix and amendments of README file.
  -- Nov 23, 2011 JST.
• Git repositories for nilfs-utils and NILFS2 standalone kernel modules were moved to https://github.com/nilfs-dev/. Prior repositories are still available, but we will close them at the begining of 2012. Thank you.
  -- Nov 19, 2011 JST.
• NILFS2 kernel module for CentOS 6 and Scientific Linux 6 is now available with git. See http://www.nilfs.org/git/ for details.
  -- Nov 14, 2011 JST.
• NILFS utilities 2.1.0-rc2 was released. Added libmount support and fixed several issues in fedora environment.
  -- Aug 7, 2011 JST.
• NILFS 2.0.22 was released. backported recent fixes, robustness enhancements to the standalone module.
  -- Jun 19, 2011 JST.
• NILFS utilities 2.1.0-rc1 was released. Added filesystem resize tool and manual cleaner control tool, reorganized libraries, and so forth.
  -- May 30, 2011 JST.

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